Today’s Jewish Birthday: Jacques Derrida

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Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 – October 9, 2004) was a French philosopher. He developed the philosophy of deconstruction, which he utilized in several of his texts, and which was developed through close readings of the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology. He is one of the major figures associated with post-structuralism and postmodern philosophy although he distanced himself from post-structuralism and disowned the word “postmodernity”.

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